Box Office Report : 4th August 2011

The coming Friday has a host of small films listed for release, the prominent ones being CHALA MUSSADDI-OFFICE OFFICE, I AM KALAM and WARNING along with a number of lesser known titles. Giving company to these films are about half a dozen dubbed films! Unfortunately, none of them are going to make a mark at the ticket window. In fact, all indications are that SINGHAM will once again be the first choice by and large with ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA in hot pursuit.

All the releases of last Friday opened to disastrous houses. Right from KHAP, GANDHI TO HITLER and BUBBLE GUM or even the dubbed Hollywood ventures like THE SMURFS and COWBOY & ALIENS have achieved precisely nothing. The audience preferred the older releases like SINGHAM and ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA.

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA has set the Overseas on fire grossing £750,000 from UK and an astonishing $2,563,000 from US till the third weekend (29-31 July).

Meanwhile Mohit Suri's Emraan Hashmi starrer MURDER 2 stood up to the challenge of SINGHAM and ZNMD at the single screens and managed decent numbers collecting 30 lakhs from Bombay, 15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.15 lakhs from Surat, 1 lakh from Rajkot, 1 lakh from Pune, 1 lakh from Nasik, 12.50 lakhs from Delhi city, 2.35 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 4.35 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.35 lakhs from Allahabad, 1.25 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2.20 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1 lakh from Amritsar, 1.10 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3 lakhs from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 3.10 lakhs from Nagpur, 1 lakh from Jabalpur, 2.15 lakhs from Raipur, 1.65 lakhs from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 7 lakhs from Bhopal, 5 lakhs from Jaipur, 3.50 lakhs from Jodhpur, 9.25 lakhs from Hyderabad (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 4 lakhs from Bangalore. Adding another 2 crores, MURDER 2 has netted an impressive 47.50 crores in three weeks from India and is now blockbuster (given the 13 crore all inclusive price), the second of the year after READY.

The film though has failed in the Overseas grossing £105,000 from UK till the fourth weekend (29-31 July).

Concluding with Aamir Khan's DELHI BELLY, the film manages to collect 12 lakhs from Bombay, 2.10 lakhs from Pune, 15 lakhs from Delhi city, 1 lakh from Ghaziabad, 1 lakh from Lucknow, 10 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.55 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.40 lakhs from Calcutta, 6 lakhs from Hyderabad (collections from other cinemas unreceived) and 15 lakhs from Bangalore. With another 85 lakhs, DELHI BELLY has netted 55.35 crores in four weeks and is a super hit.

DELHI BELLY has also done good business in the Overseas grossing £489,000 from UK and $1,525,000 from UK till the fifth weekend (29-31 July).